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1 Alexander J. Millner Contact Information: Department of Psychology William James Hall Kirkland St. Cambridge, MA Website: ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2015-Present Postdoctoral Fellow EDUCATION Ph.D. Clinical Science, Department of Psychology Advisor: Matthew Nock McLean Hospital\Harvard Medical School Pre-Doctoral Clinical Internship A.M. Clinical Science, Department of Psychology Advisor: Diego Pizzagalli Northwestern University B.A. History FUNDING Current Support National Institute of Mental Health (R21 MH S1) Administrative supplement to Using Ambulatory Physiological Monitoring to Improve Detection of Harmful Behaviors on Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Units Role: Co-Investigator

2 Amount awarded: $67, Completed Support Military Suicide Research Consortium (W81XWH ) Enhancing Identification of Suicide Risk among Military Service Members and Veterans: A Machine Learning Approach to Suicidality Role: Consultant (PI: Andrew Littlefield) Amount awarded: $260,992 Harvard subcontract: $37,940 Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative Title: The relationship between aberrant escape decision-making and suicidal behaviors. Role: Principal Investigator Amount awarded: $5,000 National Institute on Drug Abuse (K23 DA S1) Title: Gender differences in mechanisms of recovery from opioid use disorder and anxiety supplement. Role: Consultant (PI: Kathryn McHugh) American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Innovation Grant Title: The Relationship between decision-making in a negative environment and suicidal behaviors. Role: Principal Investigator Amount awarded: $104, Department of Defense, Military Suicide Research Consortium Title: New approaches to the measurement of suicide-related cognition. Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Matthew Nock) Amount awarded: $777,564 The Sackler Scholar Programme in Psychobiology, Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation Title: Clarifying the pathway to suicide: An examination of subtypes of suicidal behavior and their association with impulsiveness. Role: Principal Investigator Amount awarded: $11,

3 Restricted Funds Research Grant Recipient, Department of Psychology Title: Piloting and validating a task of impulsive behavior to relieve distress. Role: Principal Investigator Amount awarded: $3,000 PUBLICATIONS Under Revision/Invited for Resubmission Patzelt, E.H., Kool, W., Millner, A.J., Gershman, S.J. (under review). The transdiagnostic structure of mental effort avoidance. Wilson, K.M.,* Millner, A.J.,* Auerbach, R.P., Glenn, C.R., Kearns, J.C., Kirtley, O.J., Najmi, S., O Connor, R.C., Stewart, J.G., Cha, C.B. (under review). Investigating the psychometric properties of the Suicide Stroop task. *Equal Contribution Coppersmith, D.D.L., Kleiman, E.M., Glenn, C.R., Millner, A.J., & Nock, M.K. (under review). The dynamics of social support among suicide attempters: A smartphone-based daily diary study. Available Online/In Press Millner, A.J., den Ouden, H.E.M., Gershman, S.J., Glenn, C.R., Kearns, J., Bornstein, A.M., Marx, B.P., Keane, T.M., Nock, M.K. (in press). Suicidal thoughts and behaviors are associated with an increased decision-making bias for active responses to escape aversive states. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Glenn, C. R., Millner, A. J., Esposito, E. C., Porter, A. C., & Nock, M. K. (in press). Implicit identification with death predicts suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Millner, A.J., Lee, M.D., Hoyt, K., Buckholtz, J.W., Auerbach, R.P., & Nock, M.K. (available online). Are suicide attempters more impulsive than suicide ideators? General Hospital Psychiatry. Nock, M.K., Han, G., Millner, A.J., Gutierrez, P.M., Joiner, T.J., Hwang, I., King, A., Naifeh, J.A., Simpson, N.A., Zaslavsky, A.M., Stein, M.B., Ursano, R.J., & Kessler, R.C. (available online). Patterns and predictors of persistence of suicide ideation: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Patzelt, E.H., Kool, W., Millner, A.J., Gershman, S.J. (available online). Incentives boost model-based control across a range of severity on several psychiatric constructs. Biological psychiatry.

4 Nock, M.K., Millner, A.J., Joiner, T.E., Gutierrez, P.M., Hwang, I., King, A.J., Naifeh, J.A., Sampson, N.A., Zaslavsky, A.M., Stein, M.B., & Kessler, R.C. (available online). Risk factors for the transition from suicide ideation to suicide attempt: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Millner, A.J., Coppersmith, D.D.L., Teachman, B.A., & Nock, M.K. (available online). The Brief Death Implicit Association Test: Scoring recommendations, reliability, validity and comparisons with the Death Implicit Association Test. Psychological Assessment. Millner, A.J., Augenstein, T.M., Visser, K.H., Gallagher, K., Vergara, G.A., D Angelo, E.J., & Nock, M.K. (available online) Implicit cognitions as a behavioral marker of suicide attempts in adolescents. Archives of Suicide Research. Millner, A.J., Ursano, R.J., Hwang, I., King, A.J., Naifeh, J.A., Sampson, N.A., Zaslavsky, A.M., Stein, M.B., Kessler, R.C., & Nock, M.K. (available online). Prior mental disorders and lifetime suicidal behaviors among U.S. Army soldiers in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Fox, K.R., Millner, A.J., Mukerji, C.E., & Nock, M.K. (available online) Examining the role of sex in self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. Clinical Psychology Review. Peer-reviewed publications Millner, A. J., Gershman, S. J., Nock, M. K., & den Ouden, H. E. M. (2018). Pavlovian Control of Escape and Avoidance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30(10), Millner, A.J., Ursano, R.J., Hwang, I., King, A.J., Naifeh, J.A., Sampson, N.A., Zaslavsky, A.M., Stein, M.B., Kessler, R.C., & Nock, M.K. (2018). Lifetime suicidal behaviors and career characteristics among U.S. Army soldiers: Results from the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS). Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 48(2), Kleiman, E.M., Coppersmith, D.D.L., Millner, A.J., Franz, P.J., Fox, K.R., & Nock, M.K., ( 2018 ). Are suicidal thoughts reinforcing? A preliminary real-time monitoring study on the affect regulation function of suicidal thinking. Journal of Affective Disorders. 232, Gomez, S.H., Tse, J., Wang, Y., Turner, B., Millner, A.J., Nock, M.K., & Dunn, E.C. (2017). Are there sensitive periods when child maltreatment substantially elevates suicide risk? Results from a nationally representative sample of adolescents. Depression and Anxiety, 34(8), Millner, A.J., Lee, M.D., & Nock, M.K. (2017). Describing and measuring the pathway to suicide attempts: A preliminary study. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 47(3),

5 Fox, K.R., Millner, A.J., & Franklin, J.C. (2016). Classifying nonsuicidal overdoses: Nonsuicidal self-injury, suicide attempts, or neither? Psychiatry Research, 244, Beard, C.*, Millner, A.J. *, Forgeard, M.J.C., Fried, E.I., Hsu, K.J., Treadway, M.T., Leonard, C.V., Kertz, S.J. & Björgvinsson, T. (2016). Network analysis of depression and anxiety symptom relationships in a psychiatric sample. Psychological Medicine, 46(16), *Authors contributed equally Robinaugh, D. J., Millner, A.J., & McNally, R. J. (2016). Identifying highly influential nodes in the complicated grief network. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(6), Millner, A.J., Lee, M.D., & Nock, M.K. (2015). Single-Item measurement of suicidal behaviors: Validity and consequences of misclassification. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e Auerbach, R.P., Millner, A.J., Stewart, J.G., & Esposito, E.C. (2015). Identifying differences between depressed adolescent suicide ideators and attempters. Journal of Affective Disorders, 186, Teslovich, T., Mulder, M., Franklin, N.T., Ruberry, E.J., Millner, A.J., Somerville, L.H., Simen, P., Durston, S., & Casey, B.J. (2013), Adolescents let sufficient evidence accumulate before making a decision when large incentives are at stake. Developmental Science, 17(1): Tottenham, N., Hertzig, M.E., Gillespie-Lynch, K., Gilhooly, T., Millner, A.J., & Casey, BJ. (2013). Elevated amygdala response to faces and gaze aversion in autism spectrum disorder. Social Cognitive, & Affective Neuroscience, 9(1): Millner, A.J., Jaroszewski, A.C., Chamarthi, H., & Pizzagalli, D.A. (2012) Behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of training-induced cognitive control improvements. Neuroimage, 63(2), Tottenham, N., Hare, T.A., Millner, A.J., Gilhooly, T., Zevin, J.D., & Casey, B.J. (2011). Elevated amygdala response to faces following early deprivation. Developmental Science, 14(2), Tottenham N, Hare T.A., Quinn B.T., McCarry T.W., Nurse M., Gilhooly T., Millner, A.J.,, Galvan A., Davidson M.C., Eigsti I, Thomas K.M., Freed P.J., Booma E.S., Gunnar M.R., Altemus M., Aronson J., & Casey B.J. (2010). Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically large amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation. Developmental Science, 13(1), Casey, B.J., Epstein, J.N., Buhle, J., Liston, C., Davidson, M.C., Tonev, S.T., Spicer, J., Niogi, S., Millner, A.J., Reiss, A., Garrett, A., Hinshaw, S.P., Greenhill, L.L., Shafritz, K.M., Vitolo, A., Kotler, L.A., Jarrett, M.A., & Glover, G. (2007) Frontostriatal connectivity and its role in cognitive control in parent-child dyads with ADHD. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164: Book chapters

6 Millner, A.J., & Nock, M.K. (2018) Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. In Hunsley, J. & E.J. Mash (Eds.), A guide to assessments that work, second edition. New York: Oxford University Press. Glenn C.R., Jaroszewski, A.C., Millner, A.J., Kearns, J.C., & Nock, M.K. Nonsuicidal self-injury: Old problem, new disorder, limited data. In Bromet, E.J. (Ed.), (2016) Long-term outcomes in psychopathology research: Rethinking the scientific agenda. New York: Oxford University Press. Nock, M.K., Millner, A.J., Deming, C.A., & Glenn, C.R. (2014) Depression and suicide. In Gotlib, I. H. & Hammen, C. L. (Eds.), Handbook of depression, third edition. New York: The Guilford Press. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Millner, A.J., Nock, M.K. (2017). Improving the Death Implicit Association Test. Symposium presentation at Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, San Diego, CA. Ramirez, F., Pixley, H., Millner, A.J., Marx, B., & Nock, M.K. (2016) Combat experiences and suicidal behavior among US veterans. Poster presented at the 50th Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY. Jaroszewski, A.C., Millner, A.J., & Nock, M.K. (2016) Thinking about suicide influences evaluations of suicidal stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Baltimore, MD. Millner, A.J., Lee, M. & Nock, M.K., (2016). Describing and Measuring the Pathway to Suicide. Symposium presentation at American Association of Suicidology Convention, Chicago, IL. Millner, A.J. (2015). The Reliability of Between-Individual Networks. Symposium presentation at Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, Chicago, IL. Murman, N.M., Ramirez, F., Lauricella, T., Hicks, C.B., Bird, S.A., Donovan, A.J., Millner, A.J., Pixley, H.S., Reis, B.Y., Kessler, R.C., Smoller, J.W., & Nock, M.K. (2015) Development of a novel method for the short-term prediction of suicidal behavior: study design and feasibility. Poster presented at the 49th Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Chicago, IL. Millner, A.J., Lee, M. & Nock, M.K., (2014). Validity of Single-Item Assessment of Suicidal Behaviors. Symposium presentation at Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, Philadelphia, PA. Millner, A.J., Lee, M., & Nock, M.K., (2013). Examining the Pathway to Suicide. Symposium presentation at Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, Nashville, TN.

7 Knepley, M.J., Jaroszewski, A.C., Slama, S., Millner, A.J., & Nock, M.K. (2013). Suicide attempt among those without a mental disorder. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Nashville, TN. Millner, A.J., Kastman, E.K., Dorfman, H.M., Baskin-Sommers, A., Kiehl, K.A., Newman, J.P., & Buckholtz, J.W., (2013) Parsing self-control in incarcerated criminals: Aggression and impulsive-antisocial behavior track variability in reward-related corticostriatal circuit function. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. Millner, A.J. & Nock, M.K., (2012). New Directions in the Classification and Assessment of Suicidal Behaviors. Symposium presentation at Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, Washington, D.C. Millner, A.J., & Pizzagalli, D.A. (2011). Behavioral and neural correlates of cognitive control training: implications for major depression. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Millner, A.J., & Pizzagalli, D.A. (2010). Three-day cognitive control training improves action monitoring abilities: potential implications for depression research. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Boston, MA. Buhle, J., Millner, A.J., Kober, H., Raz, A., Ochsner, K., McCarry, T., & Casey, B.J. (2007). Expert meditators show enhanced vigilance, alerting and conflict resolution. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY. Amso, D., Soliman, F., Getz, S., Davidow, J., Millner, A.J., Hare,T., Bath, K., Lee, F., & Casey, B.J. (2007) Impact of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Polymorphism on Hippocampal and Striatal Learning; Evidence from Functional Imaging. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY. Tottenham, N., Gilhooly, T. Soliman, F., Hare,T. Getz,S., Millner, A.J., Amso, D., & Casey, B.J. (2007). Conditioning of Emotional Faces in Children, Adolescents, and Adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY. Prosser, J.M., Eisenberg, D.P., Millner, A.J., Matochik, J.A., London, E.D., Derbyshire, S., & Galynker, I.I., (2006) Differences in sustained attention in methadone maintained and abstinent opiate dependent subjects. Poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

8 2009 Present 2010 Present Association for Psychological Science Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies OTHER RESEARCH POSITIONS Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences Research Assistant Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology Principal Investigator: Dr. B.J. Casey TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Fellow CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Science of Living Systems 20: Psychological Science Psych1900: Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Psych1900: Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 2015-Present McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA Providing therapy through affiliation with OnTrack McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA Clinical Internship Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Bipolar Clinic and Research Program McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 3-East Adolescent Day Program McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Institute

9 Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA Department of Psychiatry Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY Department of Psychiatry EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Ad-hoc Reviewer Archives of Suicide Research BMJ Open Behavior Research and Therapy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Clinical Psychological Science Cognitive Therapy & Research JAMA Psychiatry General Hospital Psychiatry Harvard Review of Psychiatry Journal of Early Adolescence Journal Affective Disorders Journal Social Clinical Psychology PLOS One Psychiatry Research Psychological Methods Public Health Reports Scientific Reports

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